Leviticus 15:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ The uncleanness of his discharge is this: whether his member flows with its discharge or is stopped from discharging, he is unclean during the entire period his member flows or is stopped from discharging; this is his uncleanness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ This shall be [the law concerning] his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge or has stopped [running], it is uncleanness in him.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness.

Common English Bible

³ This is the nature of the uncleanness brought about by his emission: regardless of whether his genital organ allows his emission to flow or blocks the flow, it is unclean to him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And then he shall be judged subject to this fault, if a filthy fluid, at each moment, adheres to his flesh and gathers there.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And then shall he be judged subject to this evil, when a filthy humour, at every moment, cleaveth to his flesh, and gathereth there.

Leviticus 15:3 Cross References

Ezekiel 16:26

You prostituted yourself with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.

Ezekiel 23:20

and lusted after her paramours there, whose members were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.

Leviticus 12:3

On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

Leviticus 15:2

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: “When any man has a discharge from his member, his discharge makes him unclean.

Leviticus 15:4

Every bed on which the one with the discharge lies shall be unclean, and everything on which he sits shall be unclean.